Saturday, May 26, 2001
Hmm...just an observation - the addresses of my various sites may change, but some will always be the same:
the blog will always be http://decordas.blogspot.com
The Drink will always be http://thedrink.decordas.com
my site will always be www.decordas.com
and the shad site will always be www.svc2k.com
the blog will always be http://decordas.blogspot.com
The Drink will always be http://thedrink.decordas.com
my site will always be www.decordas.com
and the shad site will always be www.svc2k.com
Thursday, May 24, 2001
Music Industry Dinosaurs
Hey, with all the Napster fuss right now, and the stiffness of the Music Industry this song by Nofx (good ol' Nofx) is awesomely (real word?) cool.
sit back watch it crumble
see the drowning
watch the fall
i feel just terrible about it
that's sarcasm - let it burn
i'm gonna make a toast when it falls apart
i'm gonna raise my glass above my heart
then someone shouts "that's what they get!"
for all the years of hit and run
for all the piss broke bands on VH1
where did all their money go?
don't we all know
parasitic music industry
as it destroys itself
we'll show them how it's supposed to be
music written from devotion
not ambition
not for fame
zero people are exploited
there are no tricks up our sleeve
we're gonna fight against the mass appeal
were gonna kill the seven record deal
make records that have more then one good song
the dinosaurs will slowly die
and i do believe no one will cry
i'm just fucking glad i'm gonna be there to watch the fall
prehistoric music industry three feet in la brea tar
extinction never felt so good
if you think anyone will feel badly
you are sadly mistaken
the time has come for evolution
fuck collusion
kill the five
what ever happened to the handshake
whatever happened to deals no one would break
what happened to integrity
it's still there it always was
for playing music just because
a million reasons why
dinosaurs will die
Hey, with all the Napster fuss right now, and the stiffness of the Music Industry this song by Nofx (good ol' Nofx) is awesomely (real word?) cool.
sit back watch it crumble
see the drowning
watch the fall
i feel just terrible about it
that's sarcasm - let it burn
i'm gonna make a toast when it falls apart
i'm gonna raise my glass above my heart
then someone shouts "that's what they get!"
for all the years of hit and run
for all the piss broke bands on VH1
where did all their money go?
don't we all know
parasitic music industry
as it destroys itself
we'll show them how it's supposed to be
music written from devotion
not ambition
not for fame
zero people are exploited
there are no tricks up our sleeve
we're gonna fight against the mass appeal
were gonna kill the seven record deal
make records that have more then one good song
the dinosaurs will slowly die
and i do believe no one will cry
i'm just fucking glad i'm gonna be there to watch the fall
prehistoric music industry three feet in la brea tar
extinction never felt so good
if you think anyone will feel badly
you are sadly mistaken
the time has come for evolution
fuck collusion
kill the five
what ever happened to the handshake
whatever happened to deals no one would break
what happened to integrity
it's still there it always was
for playing music just because
a million reasons why
dinosaurs will die
Wednesday, May 23, 2001
Oh my GOSH!! Talk about fluke coincidences!! Just now on The Tick someone said "You have been judged and found wanting"!!!!
(see below for reason behind this shock)
(see below for reason behind this shock)
You have been weighed. You have been measured. And you have been found wanting.
Well yesterday was interesting. Went and saw A Knight's Tale with Jay and Trev. Jay picked me up - and the gas was already on E. But we managed to make it up to the theater. We were gonna see Shrek, but we were too late for it - it started at 9:30, Jay picked me up at 9:30. So we saw A Knight's Tale instead. It was alright, but there were a bunch of medieval inaccuracies that kinda bugged all of us.
1) A woman in it (on the good guy's side of course) invents steel.
2) The jousting crowd was clapping and singing to "We Will Rock You"
3) The post-victory dance started slowly and gradually become very modern jumping-around-ish.
4) The only nudity is a skinny Geoffrey Chaucer's ass.
5) When the hero gets his new armor, the armorer has marked it with NIKE SIGNS - "so that anybody admiring the armor would know her work."
But the rest of the show was pretty good, nice jousting and swordplay and armor. As well as one quip I liked:
"There she is, the love of your life, your Venus."
"Aye, and how I hate her."
(because she requested that he lose his jousting matches to "prove his love for her."
So after the movie, we figured we were gonna run outta gas. Oh, and Jason also didn't have the gas key so we couldn't gas up. On the big hill down we were gonna shut off the truck and let it coast, right? Well, turns out that when you do that you can't steer or brake (or something) so that notion was quickly dismissed. And somehow, we all made it home - despite small sidetracks to run over pylons. Weirdness.
Well yesterday was interesting. Went and saw A Knight's Tale with Jay and Trev. Jay picked me up - and the gas was already on E. But we managed to make it up to the theater. We were gonna see Shrek, but we were too late for it - it started at 9:30, Jay picked me up at 9:30. So we saw A Knight's Tale instead. It was alright, but there were a bunch of medieval inaccuracies that kinda bugged all of us.
1) A woman in it (on the good guy's side of course) invents steel.
2) The jousting crowd was clapping and singing to "We Will Rock You"
3) The post-victory dance started slowly and gradually become very modern jumping-around-ish.
4) The only nudity is a skinny Geoffrey Chaucer's ass.
5) When the hero gets his new armor, the armorer has marked it with NIKE SIGNS - "so that anybody admiring the armor would know her work."
But the rest of the show was pretty good, nice jousting and swordplay and armor. As well as one quip I liked:
"There she is, the love of your life, your Venus."
"Aye, and how I hate her."
(because she requested that he lose his jousting matches to "prove his love for her."
So after the movie, we figured we were gonna run outta gas. Oh, and Jason also didn't have the gas key so we couldn't gas up. On the big hill down we were gonna shut off the truck and let it coast, right? Well, turns out that when you do that you can't steer or brake (or something) so that notion was quickly dismissed. And somehow, we all made it home - despite small sidetracks to run over pylons. Weirdness.
Tuesday, May 22, 2001
SPOON!!
Y'know, I may not care for the majority of today's cartoons (the intellectual abominations known as Recess and Angela Anaconda spring immediately to mind) but there's definitely one I wish I had as a kid - The TICK! The Tick is the FUNNIEST show I've ever seen...I mean, where else can you watch Tick team up with Leonardo Da Vinci and his Fightin' Genius Time Commandos? Or watch a zebra attack Chairface Chippendale, the villain with a chair for a head, while Arthur who's been transplanted into a giant tongue waits behind with the scientist in the man-in-a-can body? OR - hahaha - where else can you see Tick start singing Opera to stop the giant plant blooming and overtaking the city?
Seriously though, the writers of this show rule. I can't express how good a show this is. :)
"I might be dangerous!"
[interview segment with the Tick]
Interviewer: But can you tell me...what do you do?
The Tick: Eh?
Interviewer: I mean - what are your superhero powers? Can you see through steel?
The Tick: Uh...
Interviewer: You know, with x-rays. Can you bend iron bars with your mind?
The Tick: Well, I...no.
Interviewer: Can you create energy-based multiples of yourself?
The Tick: Whoa...nope.
Interviewer: Can you make diamonds out of coal?
The Tick: No.
Interviewer: Shoot heat beams out of your eyes!
The Tick: No!
Interviewer: Breathe atomic fire!
The Tick: No!
Interviewer: Hmm. Well then...can you destroy the Earth?
The Tick: Egad! I hope not! ...that's where I keep all my stuff!
Interviewer: Yes...of course it is. Ah, tell me...do you have a girlfriend?
The Tick: ...I am mighty! I have a glow you cannot see! I've a heart as big as the moon! As warm as bathwater! We're superhero men. We don't have time to be charming! The boots of evil were made for walking! We're watching the big picture friend. We know the score! We are a public service - not glamour boys! Not captains of industry. Not makers of things! Keep your vulgar monies! We are a justice sandwich! No toppings necessary. Living rooms of America! Do you catch my drift? Do you...dig???
"Your culinary crimewave has crashed against the shores of justice!"
It's even educational...Tick ends every episode with a soliloquy of wisdom...take for example:
"You know, when a tomoto grows out of your forehead...it gets you thinking. What do we know about anything? Life is just a wild, crazy tossed salad! But you don't eat it! No sir, you live it! Isn't it great? Isn't it GREAT?"
Oh, and an the trip to Vancouver this weekend, I read in the paper that they're coming out with a LIVE Tick TV series! And the reviews said it was one of the fastest, funniest comedies out there. Rock on!
I'll leave you with one of the Tick's masterful brainstorms for you to think about: "Only a microsecond to make my move. Think, think...I could...no, no, maybe if I...no, that never works...what if I...no, that only works on ducks. Ducks! A good one! I shall duck!"
Y'know, I may not care for the majority of today's cartoons (the intellectual abominations known as Recess and Angela Anaconda spring immediately to mind) but there's definitely one I wish I had as a kid - The TICK! The Tick is the FUNNIEST show I've ever seen...I mean, where else can you watch Tick team up with Leonardo Da Vinci and his Fightin' Genius Time Commandos? Or watch a zebra attack Chairface Chippendale, the villain with a chair for a head, while Arthur who's been transplanted into a giant tongue waits behind with the scientist in the man-in-a-can body? OR - hahaha - where else can you see Tick start singing Opera to stop the giant plant blooming and overtaking the city?
Seriously though, the writers of this show rule. I can't express how good a show this is. :)
"I might be dangerous!"
[interview segment with the Tick]
Interviewer: But can you tell me...what do you do?
The Tick: Eh?
Interviewer: I mean - what are your superhero powers? Can you see through steel?
The Tick: Uh...
Interviewer: You know, with x-rays. Can you bend iron bars with your mind?
The Tick: Well, I...no.
Interviewer: Can you create energy-based multiples of yourself?
The Tick: Whoa...nope.
Interviewer: Can you make diamonds out of coal?
The Tick: No.
Interviewer: Shoot heat beams out of your eyes!
The Tick: No!
Interviewer: Breathe atomic fire!
The Tick: No!
Interviewer: Hmm. Well then...can you destroy the Earth?
The Tick: Egad! I hope not! ...that's where I keep all my stuff!
Interviewer: Yes...of course it is. Ah, tell me...do you have a girlfriend?
The Tick: ...I am mighty! I have a glow you cannot see! I've a heart as big as the moon! As warm as bathwater! We're superhero men. We don't have time to be charming! The boots of evil were made for walking! We're watching the big picture friend. We know the score! We are a public service - not glamour boys! Not captains of industry. Not makers of things! Keep your vulgar monies! We are a justice sandwich! No toppings necessary. Living rooms of America! Do you catch my drift? Do you...dig???
"Your culinary crimewave has crashed against the shores of justice!"
It's even educational...Tick ends every episode with a soliloquy of wisdom...take for example:
"You know, when a tomoto grows out of your forehead...it gets you thinking. What do we know about anything? Life is just a wild, crazy tossed salad! But you don't eat it! No sir, you live it! Isn't it great? Isn't it GREAT?"
Oh, and an the trip to Vancouver this weekend, I read in the paper that they're coming out with a LIVE Tick TV series! And the reviews said it was one of the fastest, funniest comedies out there. Rock on!
I'll leave you with one of the Tick's masterful brainstorms for you to think about: "Only a microsecond to make my move. Think, think...I could...no, no, maybe if I...no, that never works...what if I...no, that only works on ducks. Ducks! A good one! I shall duck!"
Cool game - Crazy Taxi for Dreamcast. Absolute carnage but without actual violence or anything - you drive a cab and smash into things but the people run away and don't get hit and the car's just get rolled around - no one actually gets hurt. REALLY FUN GAME.
Monday, May 21, 2001
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